Tag: South America
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: On the Ground Report with Rania Khalek on the International Anti-Fascist Summit in Venezuela—and the Global South Perspective on Ukraine
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 2
On today’s show we start out with Elon Musk's $44 billion dollar effort to buy Twitter. He claims he will make the algorithms open source, but there’s obviously many doubts about that. What does this development mean for the platform?...and much more
The word “security” conjures a couple of distinctly different and conflicting images. One is of human beings living in safe, viable, and sustainable communities, where individuals can freely develop their full potential, not hindered by threat and assault and exclusion from the daily necessities of life.
This notion of security...
MSNBC Needs a History Lesson: Imperial America is “Greatest Purveyor of Coups” on Earth
Ed Rampell - 4
MSNBC legal analyst Daniel Goldman, Majority Counsel in the first Trump impeachment inquiry, adds to the vast TV disinformation wasteland
Goldman claimed on air that the U.S. routinely works to prevent military coups—when it is a leading perpetrator of them
In the vast wasteland that is cable television “news,” every...
There is Absolutely No Reason in the World to Believe That Bill Clinton Is a CIA Asset—Except for All the Evidence
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 31
Clinton was allegedly recruited by the Agency in the 1960s and helped cover up for drug-and gun-running operations to the Nicaraguan Contras out of Mena, Arkansas, in the 1980s when he was Governor of Arkansas. The CIA in turn appears to have helped Clinton in his rise to power.
The...
Edward Bernays may be known as the Father of Public Relations, but you would not be mistaken if you thought of him as the Father of Lies. He was a bullshit artist par excellence who pioneered countless methods of deceiving the public.
For Bernays—author of mind-control manuals like Propaganda and...
Picking Up Where Bush, Obama, and Trump Left Off, Biden Extends U.S. Campaign to Crush Venezuela
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 11
On October 13th, Venezuela’s representative to the UN Samuel Moncada denounced plotting by the United States and Colombia against Venezuela’s democratically elected government at the UN Security Council.
In an eight-page letter to Security Council President Martin Kimani, Moncada detailed “bellicose” statements by Colombian President Iván Duque and by U.S. Navy Admiral...
Where Can You Go to Hiss Kissinger, Boo Nixon and Pelt Pinochet with Squishy Tomatoes?
Ed Rampell - 2
Try Mark Wilding’s Wildly Funny, But Razor-Sharp, Satirical Dramatization of the CIA-Backed Fascist Coup in Chile. You may think you know what happened, but you’ll never guess how it happened
Most Americans do not remember the “other” tragic 9/11 event, which took place in 1973, when the CIA helped overthrow...
Florida’s Republican Governor Awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s Assassin
Michael Steven Smith - 7
After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia
On September 16, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis awarded the Governor’s Medal...
Plan follows precedent of 1970s state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.
Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s and early ’80s in six South American U.S.-backed dictatorships—Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay—that resulted in the torture and “disappearance” of thousands of people.
The victims included dissidents and...
Socialist Pedro Castillo Wins Peruvian Election Over Dictator Alberto Fujimori’s Daughter: Former Military Commanders Encourage Electoral Coup
Ron Ridenour - 2
“The Peruvian people have raised their heads to say democratically that we are going to save this homeland,” farmer-turned-teacher, unionist organizer and socialist Pedro Castillo, 51, told supporters the evening of June 15, following the end of ten days of counting ballots.
“Tonight should not only be a night of...